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Tutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll Journal

Posted on the 22 October 2013 by Realityarts @realityarts
Tutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll Journal
In today's Tutorial Tuesday I will show you how to make this journal made from toilet rolls and recycled card. With the drive to be more 'green' this is a great way to make use of something that you would normally throw away.
What you will need:
empty toilet rolls
recycled cardpackaging card - a few millimetres thickpapers and art materials to decorate.....
Here's how you put them together:
Each empty toilet roll will form a pocket for your journal, select how many you require, this journal uses 10 rolls. The card will be used to connect each rolls togetherTutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalYou will need two pieces of slightly thicker card taken from packaging - these will form the front and back coversTutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalFlatten the toilet rolls and cover with some scrap paper, I have used the pages of an old encyclopediaTutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalSeal one of the ends of the toilet roll, as you cover it above, to form a pocket that can be used to hold your tags, or journal writing.Tutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalCut the recycled cards into strips that will be stuck to the sides of the toilet roll pockets and connect them all.Tutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll Journal
Stick the pieces of card to as many toilet roll pockets you require..Tutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalPrepare the front covers and attach.  You can paint them or add decorative paper of choiceTutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalAdd paint as required to each of the pages, and make tags from some of the left over paper and cardTutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalFrom this to that - it's cool how you can take an everyday object and transform it!Tutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalAdd some encouraging words and text to the pages, leave space for you to write your thoughts Tutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalEnjoy spending time in your journal!Tutorial Tuesday - Toilet Roll JournalThere is still 9 hours left for you to enter last weeks competition to win a Capturing moments mini journal.  Click here to take you to the post to enter.

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